Kanohi Kadin

The Kanohi KadinKanohi KadinThe Kadin granted its wearer self-powered flight, and served Toa Inika Nuparu through the Voya Nui campaign. was the Great Mask of Flight, which let its wearer soar through the sky under their own power. The mask was worn by Toa InikaToa Inika and Toa MahriSix ordinary Matoran transformed by lightning from the Red Star into heroes who ultimately revived the Great Spirit itself. NuparuNuparuAn Onu-Matoran engineer from Metru Nui who built the Boxor and rose to become a Toa of Earth despite no warrior destiny. during the Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time. campaign and, many thousands of years earlier, by the Toa JovanJovanJovan led the Toa team that retrieved the Kanohi Ignika during the Great Disruption, then served as Turaga over the population that became Voya Nui.. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

Capabilities#

The Kadin's power is simple. It let its wearer fly under their own power, soaring through the sky rather than drifting. A Noble form of the mask also existed, worn by Jovan after he became a TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities.. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

That set the Kadin apart from the MiruKanohi MiruThe Miru keeps you from falling but doesn't make you fly. Toa Lewa proved there's a difference., the Mask of Levitation, which let its wearer float and drift on the air. The Kadin was the mask of true, powered flight. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

Nuparu's path to the mask began as a MatoranMatoranThe most abundant species in the Matoran Universe, chosen by Mata Nui to inhabit and maintain his cosmic body., when KarzahniKarzahniBionicle used one cursed name three times, for a being, a realm and a plant, and every one of them earns it. This article untangles all three. took away the masks of the six Matoran who came to his realm and made them wear others. Those replacement masks were the ones the six still wore when they escaped and became Toa. (BIONICLE Legends 2: Dark Destiny)

Nuparu and the Organic Kadin#

NuparuNuparuAn Onu-Matoran engineer from Metru Nui who built the Boxor and rose to become a Toa of Earth despite no warrior destiny. wore an organic Great Kadin throughout his time as a Toa InikaToa Inika and Toa MahriSix ordinary Matoran transformed by lightning from the Red Star into heroes who ultimately revived the Great Spirit itself.. His Matoran mask had been changed by the lightning from the red star that turned the six Matoran into Toa above Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time., and like the other Inika masks it was now alive. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

Learning to use it wasn't easy. The first time the power woke up, while Nuparu was doubting how long the team would need to master their masks, it threw him into the roof of the cave. The next day it hurled him into the sky, and the others had to coax him close enough to the ground to keep travelling. He got the hang of it, and when the team reached a chasm full of lava, he flew each Toa across in turn. A gust of wind knocked him off course while he was carrying HahliHahliA Ga-Matoran scholar who rose to become Chronicler of Mata Nui, then Toa Inika, then Toa Mahri of Water during the final crises of the Matoran Universe., and he dropped her, but JallerJallerJaller served as Captain of the Ta-Koro Guard, led the Toa Inika to Voya Nui, and commanded the Toa Mahri through the recovery of the Mask of Life. caught her. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

The mask's defining use came against ZaktanZaktanMutated Skakdi leader of the Piraka, formerly a Dark Hunter whose body was dissolved into a colony of Protodites by the Shadowed One and reformed with its consciousness intact.. Nuparu rocketed into the air straight at the Piraka and, just before he hit the swarm, spun himself into a blur, flying through Zaktan and scattering the ProtoditesProtoditesMicroscopic, violent Rahi that could fly independently but found their most crucial existence as the biological substrate of Zaktan's body. that made up his body. The move fitted the mask perfectly: a body made of tiny creatures could be broken up by a fast pass straight through it, and only a flying Toa could make one. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

On the descent to the Chamber of Life, the Toa Inika faced the guardian UmbraBionicle Umbra: the Light-Speed Guardian of the Mask of LifeUmbra is the warrior of light who guards the way down to the Kanohi Ignika beneath Voya Nui. He was the first guardian the Great Beings made for the Mask of Life, and in 2006 he very nearly stopped the Toa Inika.. When Umbra attacked as a beam of light, MatoroMatoroA quiet Ko-Matoran translator who became a Toa Inika and then a Toa Mahri, Matoro gave his life with the Mask of Life to restore Mata Nui. coated the cave walls in reflective ice, and Nuparu lured Umbra into hitting them, so that he bounced wildly off the walls until he was knocked out. (BIONICLE Ignition 4: A Cold Light Dawns)

JovanJovanJovan led the Toa team that retrieved the Kanohi Ignika during the Great Disruption, then served as Turaga over the population that became Voya Nui. and the Earlier Wearing#

The other recorded Kadin wearer was JovanJovanJovan led the Toa team that retrieved the Kanohi Ignika during the Great Disruption, then served as Turaga over the population that became Voya Nui., who led a team of Toa to retrieve the Mask of LifeThe Mask of Life (Kanohi Ignika), explainedA failsafe forged by the Great Beings to recharge a god. It curses everyone who touches it, and by the end of Bionicle it had learned how to be a hero. long before the Toa InikaToa Inika and Toa MahriSix ordinary Matoran transformed by lightning from the Red Star into heroes who ultimately revived the Great Spirit itself. reached Voya NuiVoya NuiAn island born from catastrophe and hiding the universe's most powerful artifact, Voya Nui was everything Bionicle 2006 promised: danger, mystery, and a race against time.. As a Toa he wore a Kadin and carried a magnetic bolt launcher, and he returned the mask to its chamber once the mission was done. When he became a TuragaTuragaFormer Toa who fulfilled their destiny and transformed into leaders. Turaga wield Noble Kanohi masks and weakened elemental powers, guiding their communities., his Kadin became a Noble mask. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

The Kadin gave Jovan the same thing it later gave NuparuNuparuAn Onu-Matoran engineer from Metru Nui who built the Boxor and rose to become a Toa of Earth despite no warrior destiny.: a way into the sky for a Toa whose element didn't carry him there. That parallel is the clearest thread in the mask's recorded use. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

Role in the Toa Inika Loadout#

The Toa Inika covered Fire, Ice, Water, Stone, Air and Earth, and each wore a living Great mask. KonguKonguKongu captained Le-Koro's Gukko Force before lightning from the red star turned him into a Toa of Air, who later served among the Toa Mahri. wore the SuletuSuletuThe Suletu, Mask of Telepathy, allowed its wearer to read thoughts and project thoughts into other minds. Its best-known wearers were Toa Inika Kongu and Toa Krakua. for telepathy, HewkiiHewkiiHewkii rose from Po-Metru Matoran to Mata Nui's foremost kolhii player, then served as Toa Inika and Toa Mahri through the late wars of the universe. the SanokSanokThe Sanok was the Kanohi Mask of Accuracy, granting its wearer the power to strike any target with any thrown object, most famously worn by Toa Inika Hewkii. for accuracy, HahliHahliA Ga-Matoran scholar who rose to become Chronicler of Mata Nui, then Toa Inika, then Toa Mahri of Water during the final crises of the Matoran Universe. the EldaKanohi EldaThe Elda is the Kanohi Mask of Detection, which reveals hidden beings and tracks the Mask of Life. Hahli wore it as a Toa Inika. for detection, MatoroMatoroA quiet Ko-Matoran translator who became a Toa Inika and then a Toa Mahri, Matoro gave his life with the Mask of Life to restore Mata Nui. the IdenThe Kanohi IdenThe Kanohi Iden allowed its user to project their spirit from their body, granting invisibility, speed, and the ability to inhabit hostless forms. for spirit travel, and JallerJallerJaller served as Captain of the Ta-Koro Guard, led the Toa Inika to Voya Nui, and commanded the Toa Mahri through the recovery of the Mask of Life. the CalixKanohi CalixThe Mask of Fate let its wearer perform at the absolute peak of their natural physical ability, running, leaping and dodging better than almost any unenhanced member of their species. for fate. The Kadin was the only mask on the team that dealt with movement directly. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated)

The mask landed on the Toa of Earth, whose element shaped stone and dug through ground and didn't lift him into the air. The Kadin gave NuparuNuparuAn Onu-Matoran engineer from Metru Nui who built the Boxor and rose to become a Toa of Earth despite no warrior destiny. the height his element couldn't, though his rough first flights show that even a powerful mask took practice. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play)

Transition to the Toa Mahri#

NuparuNuparuAn Onu-Matoran engineer from Metru Nui who built the Boxor and rose to become a Toa of Earth despite no warrior destiny.'s use of the Kadin ended when the Mask of Life transformed the Toa InikaToa Inika and Toa MahriSix ordinary Matoran transformed by lightning from the Red Star into heroes who ultimately revived the Great Spirit itself. into the Toa Mahri. His Kadin became a Kanohi Volitak, the Great Mask of Stealth, as the team took on underwater work around Mahri NuiMahri NuiA matoran settlement that sank, survived, and was ultimately crushed beneath Voya Nui, leaving behind one of Bionicle's most poignant lost civilizations., where staying unseen mattered more than flight. (BIONICLE: Encyclopedia Updated; BIONICLE Legends 7: Prisoners of the Pit)

Power Play and A Cold Light Dawns hold the Toa Inika's main moments with the mask. After the Mahri change, the Kadin passed out of the story. (BIONICLE Legends 3: Power Play; BIONICLE Ignition 4: A Cold Light Dawns)